The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The professional and personal life of actor and comedian Peter Sellers was a turbulent one. His early movie fame was based primarily on his comic characterizations, often of bumbling and foreign-accented persons, characters which he embodied. As his movie fame rose, he began to lose his own personal identity to his movie characters, leading to self-doubt of himself as a person and a constant need for reassurance and acceptance of his work. This self-doubt manifested itself in fits of anger and what was deemed as arrogance by many. In turn, his personal relationships began to deteriorate as his characterizations were continually used to mask his problems. His first wife, Anne Howe, left/divorced him and his relationships with his parents and children became increasingly distant. His relationship with his second wife, Swedish actress Britt Ekland, was based on this mask. In his later life, he tried to rediscover himself and his career with what would become his penultimate film role, that of Chance in Being There (1979).
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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What's New Pussycat?
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Little Bo(p) Peep
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You Make Me Feel So Young
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Love is a Many Splendored Thing
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Dream a Little Dream of Me
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Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
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I'm a Just a Lucky So & So
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In the Midnight Hour
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The Blue Danube Waltz
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Goodness Gracious Me
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It's My Life
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Big Spender
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After the Fox
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
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Space Oddity
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I'll Close My Eyes
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I Haven't Told Her & She Hasn't Told Me
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It's Not Unusual
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Girl from Ipanema
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Riding on a Crest of a Wave
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The Pink Panther
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I Heard it Through the Grapevine
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Should I Stay or Should I Go
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A Well Respected Man
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What's New Pussycat
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Burt Bacharach:
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I'm a Just a Lucky So & So
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Mack David:
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It's My Life
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Roger Atkins:
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I'll Close My Eyes
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Buddy Kaye:
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I Haven't Told Her & She Hasn't Told Me
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Sammy Fain:
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It's Not Unusual
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Gordon Mills:
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